Railway-tie.



F. L. MORRIS.

RAILWAY TIE.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 5.191s.

1,21 1,957, Patented Jan. 9,1917.

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FRANK L. MORRIS, 0F SALT LAKE CITY, U-TAll-I, ASSIGNOR 0F ONE-HALF TO WILFORD D.

, PETERSON', OF SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH. v v

RAILWAY-TIE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 1917.

I Application filed June 5, 1916. Serial No. 101,841.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that'I FRANK L. MORRIS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Salt Lake City, in the county of Salt Lake and State of Utah, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Railway-Ties, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to railway ties, and has for its objectto provide an economical metal tie which consists of two duplicate interlocking members that will engage the base flange of rails and firmly hold said rails against vertical, longitudinal and lateral displacement. These objects I accomplish with the device illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which similar letters and numerals of reference indicate like parts throughoutthe several figures, and as described in the specification forming a part of this application, and pointed out in the appended claims.

In the drawings in which I have shown a substantial embodiment of my invention Figure 1 is a plan view of the device with a portion of two rails held in place thereon. Fig. 2 is a plan view of one of the duplicate members of which the tie is made. Fig. 3 is an edge view of the same member. Fig. 4: is an inverted plan view of a tie showing the contact plane of its two members.

The present invention is intended to supply a metal tie which may be constructed and assembled on the road bed, and the two parts of which it consists being duplicates, in order that in forming or casting them only one piece need be constructed, and that when assembled and the rails are placed thereon, they are held in gripping contact with said rails by inexpensive locking bolts or lugs.

In the drawings the two members are shown as 1 and 2, although it is to be understood that 1 is the duplicate of 2, which has been simply reversed in position. It consists of a piece of metal forged or cast into the shape desired, having two upstanding rail flange engaging lugs 8, both of which are inclined to engage the same side of two rail flanges. An irregular contacting face A is formed or provided as one edge of each of said members 1 and 2, a portion of which face is vertical and parallel with the outer edge, said portion extending from the end of the member to a point below where the outer edge of the flange of the railwill bear, this portion of said. face A being shown at'a. The continuation of said face A is next .formedor provided by a vertical angular cut to a point below where the inner edge of the same rail tread will bear on a line crossing said flange at practically 30 degrees. This portion of said face A is shown at Z2. The central and next portion of said face A is provided by a vertical. angular cut extending from the last mentioned angular cut from the lnner edge of the said rail tread to the inner edge of the other rail tread. This portion of said face A is shown at c, and the vertical plane of this face 0 will cross the central longitudinal vertical plane of the assembled tie at its medial point. The continuation of said face A is next provided by a vertical angular cut, to a point. below,where the outer edge of the flange of the last mentioned rail will bear, and parallel with the angular face below the other rail. This portion of the said face A is shown at d, and the remaining face is formed by a cut parallel with the outer edge of the tie and extends to the end of the tie and shown at e. The lower corner edges of said faces, a, b, c, d and e are beveled or cut away, and when the two members 1 and 2 are as sembled in position under and in gripping contact with the two rails the said beveled cuts will form an inverted V-shaped crooked track or opening 6 to prevent dirt or gravel from getting between the two sections of the tie in assembling and drawing them together. A locking bolt or lug 4 is secured in or integrally formed on the face I) of said members 1 and 2, of a length suiiicient to extend beyond the end of the member, and having its free and portion externally threaded. The said bolt is longitudinally parallel with the face 0, and a nut 7 is screwed thereon. An opening or hole 8 to receive a similar bolt 4 is provided longitudinally through a portion of saidmembers 1 and 2, and said opening 8 extends from the said face (Z to the adjacent end of the member, and is longitudinally parallel with the said face a.

The assembling and use of my device is as follows :.When the two members 1 and 2 are placed sufliciently adjacent to support and receive the rails thereon, the lugs 3 of said members will not enage the'base flange of the rails. The said members 1 and 2 will have their faces contiguousand the bolts 4 will be in longitudinal alinement and par tially within the openings 8, but the faces a, b,d and 6 will, be spaced apart. In order their faces 0.

that said lugs 3 may be brought into gripping contact with the base flanges of therails,'one or'both of said members is moved longitudinally'and the bolts 4: made to protrude through the openings 8; and when the 'nuts 7 are screwed on saidbolts the said members" are 'moved endwise in line with A shim of any desired material may be inserted beneath the flanges of the rails in each; a threaded bolt in each of said plates having one 'end fastened into an angled faced portion thereof and adapted to pass through an opening in a similar angled faced portion of the opposed plate; and nuts screwed on said bolts to draw said lugs in Copies of, thi s'pa'tent may be obtained; for

gripping contact with the base flange of vor'face which coincides with a similar face when the two metal plates are contiguous, a portion of said face being parallel with the other edge and two other portions parallel with each other and at an angle of 60 de grees from the first described parallel portions and positioned across the rail bearing parts of the tie; and a central portion of said face cut at an angle extending from the inner edge of one rail tread to the inner edge of the other rail tread and crossing the central line of the assembled tie at its medial point upstanding integral flange engaging lugs on each plate coacting with similar lugs on the interlocking plate; a threaded bolt fastened into one of said angle faces and adapted to operate within an opening through the other angle faced portion; and nuts on said bolts to draw said lugs into grilpping contact with the base flange of rm 5. y

In testimony whereof I have aflixed my signature in presence of the witness.

FRANK L. MORRIS. lVitness: I

SAM RANEY.

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